Obama sends Congress $3.77 trillion spending plan

9:28 AM,
Apr. 10, 2013

In this April 8, 2013, photo, copies of President Barack Obama's budget plan for fiscal year 2014 are prepared for delivery at the U.S. Government Printing Office in Washington. Obama is sending Congress on Wednesday, April 10, his long-awaited budget, an effort to achieve an elusive 'grand bargain' to tame run-away deficits that have soared above $1 trillion for each of the past four years. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.77 trillion spending blueprint that seeks to tame runaway deficits by raising taxes further on the wealthy and trimming popular benefit programs but has drawn angry responses from both the right and left.

Obama is pushing for a compromise between Republicans who refuse to raise taxes and Democrats who are seeking to protect popular programs that provide pensions and health care to the elderly and poor.

Battles between the two parties over budgeting priorities have brought the government brink of shutdown several times and the ...